Abstract: A method for analyzing constituents of a material under test is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a plurality of impedance spectroscopy measurements of the material under test over a predetermined frequency range. A data set is passed to a machine learning system, the machine learning system having been trained to return an output related to one or more constituents in the material under test based on impedance spectroscopy measurement data over the predetermined frequency range. An output of the machine learning system is received and outputted. Related systems, methods and devices are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a plasma electric propulsion device comprising a capacitive energy storage device as a power source for an engine configured to heat and/or ionize and/or accelerate a propellant due to action of an electric field and/or magnetic field. The energy storage device comprises: a first electrically conductive electrode, a second electrically conductive electrode; and at least one metadielectric layer located between the first and second conductive electrodes. The metadielectric layer comprises at least one organic compound with at least one electrically resistive substituent and at least one polarizable unit. The polarizable unit is selected from intramolecular and intermolecular polarizable units.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an unmanned vehicle comprising a device to be powered; a capacitor energy storage system (CESS) and controller board for at least temporarily powering and operating the device to powered. Further, the CESS includes one or more metacapacitors as an energy storage medium. Additionally, the disclosure provides a capacitor energy storage cell composed of the at least one metacapacitor and a DC-voltage conversion device, where the output voltage of the metacapacitor is the input voltage of the DC-voltage conversion device. Still further, the CESS may be comprised of a module of said capacitor energy storage cells, or a system of modules of said capacitor energy storage cells.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for identifying, monitoring, and treating migraines and migraineurs. An electroencephalogram (EEG) of a patient is obtained. The EEG comprises a plurality of EEG signals. At least two features are extracted of a network feature across at least one pair of the plurality of EEG signals in the alpha frequency band, a feature derived from a signal decomposition of at least one EEG signal, and a feature representing the power spectrum density of at least one EEG signal. The patient is classified into one of a plurality of classes, each representing one of the presence of migraine symptoms, a response to migraine treatment, a type of migraineur, a current stage of a migraine, and a likelihood that the patient is a migraineur, according to the extracted at least two features.

Abstract: A metadielectric composite oligomeric organic material according to the formula: wherein C is a linear chain oligomeric polarizable core with a system of conjugated multiple and single bonds wherein the linear chain oligomeric polarizable core possesses at least two different monomers with differing electron affinity, and the different monomers are positioned within the linear chain oligomeric polarizable core such that an electron affinity gradient is present, and the differing monomers have a low HOMO-LUMO bandgap between them, and there is at least one electron-donor group, D, attached to the linear chain oligomeric polarizable core, there is at least one electron-acceptor group, A, is attached to the linear chain oligomeric polarizable core, p? and q? represent the number of electron-donor and electron-acceptor groups present, respectively, and are any integer greater than zero, and at least one resistive insulating group is covalently attached to the molecular structure at any location.

Abstract: A composite oligomeric material includes one or more repeating backbone units. One or more polarizable units are incorporated into or connected to one or more of the one or more repeating backbone units. One or more resistive tails are connected to one or more of the repeating backbone units or to the one or more polarizable units as a side chain on the polarizable unit. The composite oligomer material may be polymerized to form a metadielectric, which may be sandwiched between to electrodes to form a metacapacitor.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a coiled capacitor comprising a coil formed by a flexible multilayered tape, and a first terminating electrode and a second terminating electrode which are located on butts of the coil. The flexible multilayered tape contains the following sequence of layers: first metal layer, a layer of a plastic, second metal layer, a layer of energy storage material. The first metal layer forms ohmic contact with the first terminating electrode and the second metal layer forms ohmic contact with the second terminating electrode. The energy storage material comprises material selected from the list comprising rylene fragments, doped oligoaniline and p-oligo-phenylene, supramolecular structures, colloidal composite with dispersion (suspension) of electro-conductive anisometric particles in an insulator matrix, material comprises a surfactant.

Abstract: A composite polymeric material includes one or more repeating backbone units; one or more polarizable units incorporated into or connected to one or more of the one or more repeating backbone units; and one or more resistive tails connected to one or more of the repeating backbone units or to the one or more polarizable units as a side chain on the polarizable unit, on a hydrocarbon chain linking a polarizable unit to a backbone unit, or directly attached to a backbone unit. The composite polymeric material may be used to form a metadielectric, which may be sandwiched between to electrodes to form a metacapacitor.

Abstract: An electro-polarizable compound has the following general formula: where Core1 is an aromatic polycyclic conjugated molecule having two-dimensional flat form and self-assembling by pi-pi stacking in a column-like supramolecule, which is tetrapirolic macro-cyclic fragment, R1 is an dopant group connected to Core1, m is number of R1 which is equal to 1, 2, 3 or 4, R2 is a substituent comprising one or more ionic groups, p is number of R2 which is equal to 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4. The fragment marked NLE containing the Core1 with at least one R1 has a nonlinear effect of polarization. Core2 is an electro-conductive oligomer self-assembling by pi-pi stacking in a column-like supramolecule, n is number of Core2 which is equal to 2, or 4, R3 is a substituent comprising one or more ionic groups, s is number of R3 which is equal to 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4. R4 is a non-polar resistive substituent, k is a number of R4 which is equal to 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8.

Abstract: A capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric layer of molecular material disposed between said first and second electrodes. The molecular material is described by the general formula: Dp-(Core)-Hq, where Core is a polarizable conductive anisometric core, having conjugated ?-systems, and characterized by a longitudinal axis, D and H are insulating substituents, and p and q are numbers of the D and H substituents accordingly. And Core possesses at least one dopant group that enhances polarizability.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a coiled capacitor comprising a coil formed by a flexible multilayered tape, and a first terminating electrode and a second terminating electrode which are located on butts of the coil. The flexible multilayered tape contains the following sequence of layers: first metal layer, a layer of a plastic, second metal layer, a layer of energy storage material. The first metal layer forms ohmic contact with the first terminating electrode and the second metal layer forms ohmic contact with the second terminating electrode. The energy storage material comprises material selected from the list comprising rylene fragments, doped oligoaniline and p-oligo-phenylene, supramolecular structures, colloidal composite with dispersion (suspension) of electro-conductive anisometric particles in an insulator matrix, material comprises a surfactant.

Abstract: An electro-polarizable compound having the following formula (I): where Core1 is an aromatic polycyclic conjugated molecule having two-dimensional flat form and self-assembling by pi-pi stacking in a column-like supramolecule comprising one or more rylene fragments, R1 is an electron donor group connected to Core1 and R1? is an electron acceptor group connected to the Core1, m is number of acceptor group R1, m? is a number of donor group R?, m and m? are equal to 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6, wherein m and m? are not both equal to 0, R2 is a substituent comprising one or more ionic groups from a class of ionic compounds that form ionic liquids connected to the Core1-directly or via a connecting group, p is a number of ionic groups R2 which is equal to 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; wherein the fragment marked NLE containing the Core1 with at least one group R1 and/or R1? has a nonlinear effect of polarization, wherein Core2 is an electro-conductive oligomer, n is a number equal to 0, 2, or 4, R3 is a substituent comprising on

Abstract: An organic polymeric compound called a Furuta or para-Furuta polymer is characterized by polarizability and resistivity has repeating units of a general structural formula: P1 may be acrylate, methacrylate, polypropylene, polyethylene, polyamide, polyaramid, polyester, siloxane, or polyethylene terephthalate. Tail is a resistive substitute. L is a linker group attached to an ionic functional group Q; j, a number of ionic functional groups Q, ranges from 1 to 5; n and m independently range from 3 to about 1000. Q is an ionic liquid ion, zwitterion, or polymeric acid. The number t ranges from 6 to 200,000. B is a counter ion, that can supply an opposite charge to balance a charge of the organic polymeric compound; s is a number of counter ions B. A plasticizer increases mobility of the polymers within the compound.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an energy storage molecular material, crystal dielectric layer and capacitor which may solve a problem of the further increase of volumetric and mass density of reserved energy associated with some energy storage devices, and at the same time reduce cost of materials.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an organic compound characterized by electronic polarizability and having a following general structural formula: where Core is an aromatic polycyclic conjugated molecule, R1 is an insulating group, n is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8, R2 is substitute located in apex positions, R3 and R4 are located in side (lateral) positions and, the core has flat anisometric form and R2 are selected from hydrogen and nucleophilic groups (donors) and R3 and R4 are independently selected from hydrogen and electrophilic groups (acceptors) or vice versa R3 and R4 are independently selected from hydrogen and nucleophilic groups (donors) and R2 are selected from hydrogen and electrophilic groups (acceptors).

Abstract: An electro-polarizable compound has the following general formula: Core1 is an aromatic polycyclic conjugated molecule having two-dimensional flat form and that self-assembles to form supramolecular structures. R1 are electron donor groups connected to Core1 and R1? are electron acceptor groups connected to Corel, m is number of acceptor groups R1, m? is a number of donor groups R?. The numbers m and m? are equal to 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6, but both m and m? are not both equal to 0. R2 is a substituent comprising one or more ionic groups connected to Core1 directly or via a connecting group; a number p of ionic groups R2 is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4. The fragment marked NLE has a nonlinear effect of polarization. Core2 is a self-assembling electro-conductive oligomer, a number n of the such oligomers is 0, 2, or 4. R3 is a substituent comprising one or more ionic groups connected to Core2; a number s of the ionic groups R3 is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4.

Abstract: A metadielectric composite oligomeric organic material according to Formula shown in FIG. 4 wherein C is a linear chain oligomeric polarizable core with a system of conjugated multiple and single bonds wherein the linear chain oligomeric polarizable core possesses at least two different monomers with differing electron affinity, and the different monomers are positioned within the linear chain oligomeric polarizable core such that an electron affinity gradient is present, and the differing monomers have a low HOMO-LUMO bandgap between them, and there is at least one electron-donor group, D, attached to the linear chain oligomeric polarizable core, there is at least one electron-acceptor group, A, is attached to the linear chain oligomeric polarizable core, p? and q? represent the number of electron-donor and electron-acceptor groups present, respectively, and are any integer greater than zero, and at least one resistive insulating group is covalently attached to the molecular structure at any location.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multilayered electrode comprising an electro-conductive layer and at least one protective layer located on one side of the electro-conductive layer and selected from the list comprising a field-planarization layer, a tunneling injection blocking layer and a coulomb blocking layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides solid multilayer structure having m polarization layers, and m+1 insulating layers disposed in a repeating sequence with the polarization layers, At least one polarization layer is comprised of materials selected from non-linear polarizable composite compounds and side chain polymers with non-linear polarizable pendants, and m is a number greater than or equal to 1. The insulating layer has a breakdown voltage greater than or equal to 0.01 volts (V) per nanometer (nm), and the polarization layer has a dielectric permittivity greater than or equal to 100. The solid multilayer structure may be used as a dielectric layer between two electrodes in capacitor.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the fields of electrical engineering and electronics. More specifically, the present invention relates to passive components of electrical circuitry and more particularly to energy storage devices and method of production thereof.